Steamship Buena Ventura v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
175 U.S. 384 · 1899
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 1992 · most notably The Steamship Styria v. James L Morgan (1902), Kean v. Calumet Canal & Improvement Co. (1903)
4 federal appellate · 3 district ·
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on The Olinde Rodrigues · The Buena Ventura
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Spanish vessels having on board any officer in the military or naval service of the enemy, or any coal (except such as may be necessary for their voyage) or any other article prohibited or contraband of war, or any despatch of or to the Spanish government.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. The Panama
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.